DailyDot roger ebert dead Feedhttp://www.dailydot.com/tags/roger-ebert-dead/Recent roger ebert dead articles from Daily Doten-usFri, 05 Apr 2013 13:10:30 +0000Reddit's tiny, poignant tribute to Roger Eberthttp://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-tribute-roger-ebert/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/09/ce/09ceae5fba6bc6b2cd9642f06336c82d.jpg'></p><p>
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mike@thedailydot.com (Mike Fenn)Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:10:30 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-tribute-roger-ebert/RedditNewsSo long, Roger Ebert, and thanks for all the tweetshttp://www.dailydot.com/society/roger-ebert-best-tweets/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/77/fb/77fb986a852a61b8ad15b56e61764f4a.jpg'></p><p>
Beloved and popular film critic <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/roger-ebert-see-you-at-the-movies/">Roger Ebert passed away</a> today, at the age of 70, after battling with cancer for more than a decade.</p>
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In addition to being a prolific film critic&mdash;he penned more than 10,000 reviews in his four-decade career&mdash;he became an avid Twitter user after losing his lower jaw in 2006. Like his reviews, Ebert&#39;s tweets were insightful, blunt, and funny.</p>
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He wasn&#39;t always right&mdash;his views on <a href="https://twitter.com/ebertchicago/status/12477550586">video games</a> strike me as short-sighted&mdash;but he was always entertaining and fun to read.&nbsp;</p>
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He had a knack for picking on or making fun of celebrities in the news. A favorite target of his was former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, which isn&#39;t surprising given his outspoken, left-leaning politics.</p>
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Ebert also skewered&mdash;brilliantly, I might add&mdash;golfer Tiger Woods&#39;s philandering:</p>
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There was also that time he called out singer-guitarist John Mayer for <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/02/john_mayer_my_d.php">saying</a> that his junk was a &quot;white supremacist.&quot;</p>
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Perhaps his biggest&mdash;and least popular&mdash;dig at a celebrity was the following tweet he made following the death of former <em>Jackass</em> star Ryan Dunn.</p>
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Not all of his tweets targeted specific famous people. Some of them called out douchebags in general.</p>
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Ebert also used the social media platform to constantly rail against what he thought was a scourge on the film industry.</p>
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He also knew how to make fun of himself, as evidenced by this tweet that refers to the loss of his jaw to cancer.</p>
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And then there were the types of tweets I like to call &quot;Ebertisms,&quot; clever and astute observations made by a man who&#39;s been around enough to know what&#39;s what.</p>
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But if I had to pick my favorite Roger Ebert tweet, it&#39;d be the following.</p>
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Indeed it could have.</p>
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<em>Photo via </em><a href="https://twitter.com/ebertchicago"><em>Roger Ebert/Twitter</em></a></p>
fidel@dailydot.com (Fidel Martinez)Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:07:22 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/society/roger-ebert-best-tweets/TwitterSocietyWe'll see you at the movies, Roger Eberthttp://www.dailydot.com/news/roger-ebert-dead-70-cancer/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/02/b3/02b39cbd72ec9b3d9f8c2f59ad49bad2.jpg'></p><p>
Roger Ebert passed away Thursday.</p>
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<em>The Chicago Sun-Times</em>, the newspaper where he plied his trade for decades, <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/17320958-761/roger-ebert-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer.html">reported Ebert&#39;s death</a> at the age of 70 after a battle with cancer.</p>
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Ebert, a Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism, lost his physical voice when he lost his lower jaw in 2006. He found a new voice on the Internet. He has noted on many occasions how his site brought him closer to his readers.</p>
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His website has tens of millions of readers,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/daily-dot-top-10-2011-twitter/">his Twitter account</a> more than 837,000 followers. He wrote just this week that he was looking to <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/04/a_leave_of_presense.html">launch a Kickstarter project</a> to revive a version of his famed syndicated TV show with the late Gene Siskel, <em>Siskel and Ebert at the Movies</em>.</p>
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On Tuesday, Ebert revealed that he once again had cancer. He said he would be taking a &quot;leave of presence&quot; to focus on his health, a new venture, and to only review the films he actually wanted to.</p>
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It was well deserved. Over his four-decade career, Ebert composed more than 10,000 reviews. In 2012, his most prolific year, he wrote more than 300.</p>
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Ebert&#39;s legacy, not only in the film industry but to writers and love of the written word everywhere, will endure for generations. His prose inspired legions of writers to take up film criticism.&nbsp;</p>
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His last public writing was an <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/04/a_leave_of_presense.html">announcement</a> that he was leave notice from his regular column at the <em>Sun-Times</em>. &quot;Thank you for going on this journey with me,&quot; he closed. &quot;I&#39;ll see you at the movies.&quot;</p>
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Farewell, Roger Ebert. May you ever debate film and life itself with your old friend Siskel.</p>
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<em>Photo via </em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2AaN_CBvQ"><em>enews</em></a><em>/YouTube</em></p>
kris@dailydot.com (Kris Holt)Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:11:39 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/roger-ebert-dead-70-cancer/News